Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Monday, November 30, 2015

A review of Neil Oliver's “A History of Scotland”

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"That the Two Kingdoms of  Scotland and England  shall upon the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof and forever after be  U...
Friday, November 20, 2015

A review of “The Storm That Swept Mexico”

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The "Great Revolution" in Mexico: It's not the war of independence from Spain If your average person on the street overhea...

The Nuremberg trials: A comparison of two movies

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Warning: This post contains some disturbing pictures related to the Holocaust. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

A review of “The Great War” (1964 BBC series)

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"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely...
Monday, November 9, 2015

A review of CNN's “The Cold War”

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"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Communism in Russia: How the madness got started

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"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible ove...
Monday, November 2, 2015

A review of PBS's “Marie Antoinette” movie

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" Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ." ("Let them eat cakes.") - The infamous Marie Antoinette line that Marie Antoinette...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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